Sentence examples for lighting a campfire from inspiring English sources

But when lighting a campfire would be inconvenient or unwise, there's the Indoor Flameless Marshmallow Roaster by Hammacher Schlemmer.

Soon it will be bushfire season in this part of Victoria, and lighting a campfire will not be possible.

On Monday, the authorities charged a homeless man with arson for lighting a campfire and leaving it unattended, igniting a blaze in southwest Austin that destroyed six homes.

Connecticut, perhaps the only state where lighting a campfire is illegal, has become a land of unhappy campers and downright dyspeptic campground owners.

Merton's other exploits included climbing on to the Morden Hall Road roundabout and lighting a campfire in the shrubbery – and, drunk on cider, jumping on to the line at South Wimbledon tube station and walking into the tunnel, narrowly avoiding the live wire.

The individual may strike a match, for example, to light a campfire but then will hold the match until it burns his fingers.

But the divestment campaign is not arguing for an end of all fossil fuel use starting tomorrow, with everyone heading back to caves to light a campfire.

We found wood and lit a campfire and made dinner — beef Stroganoff — and I sopped up all the gravy with my fingers.

Two 16-year-olds are believed to be behind a bushfire north of Newcastle that spread out of control after they lit a campfire on Saturday during a total fire ban in the Shoal Bay area near Port Stephens.

We all know that kindling ignites faster than logs, though, so this is not only puzzling to anyone who's ever tried to light a campfire; it's also, Finney said, "absolutely contrary to the models," most of which assume that radiation from a wildfire lights the flammable materials at the fire's leading edge.

The reality, however, is that trying to light the much vaunted "bonfire" becomes a bit like a rain sodden boy scout trying to light a campfire with two wooden sticks.